Findings Surveillance Intestinal metaplasia of the cardia Not recommended Irregular Z line Not recommended <3cm without IM Repeat gastroscopy with quadrantic biopsies – if still no IM, discharge from surveillance <3cm with IM Every 3-5 years (agreed 4 yearly L&D) >3cm Every 2-3 years (agreed 2 yearly L&D)
The IBD-SSHAMP (Supported, Self Help And Management Programme) Team at the Luton & Dunstable University Hospital have reached the finals of the BMJ Gastroenterology Team of the Years Awards for 2014. A short piece was written in the BMJ. If you want to read more please click on the link here
The L&D Team are Shortlisted for the British Medical Journal’s Gastroenterology Team of the Year Awards  2014
Recently PKB asked a selection of patients and members of our IBD Team to discuss their experience of using PKB to help manage IBD. The video clips here give a useful insight into the different perspectives patients, clinicians and specialist nurses have of using this novel system.
The Telegraph recently published an article discussing Patients Know Best and our involvement with them to deliver our IBD – Supported, Self Help And Management Programme
The United European Gastroenterology (UEG) group have published a new colorectal cancer awareness poster as a useful reminder to us all about the facts surrounding screening
We are delighted that our Luton & Dunstable IBD team has been shortlisted by the British Medical Journal for the Gastroenterology Team of the Year Awards 2014 for the work we have performed with the National IBD Registry and Patient Management System, and our own research and remote web-based management system entitled IBD – SSHAMP (Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Supported,…
The Contribution the L&D has made to the Mount Vernon Cancer Network recently received a Highly Commended award in the Prevention and Early Diagnosis category at the Quality in Care, Excellence in Oncology Awards.  The award was for our series of educational films and resource kits which we called:     “Ten Minutes to Save a Life’ : A series of films by clinicians for clinicians.“…